Here's yet another module by monZphere: Kanban view of your incidents.
Standard Zabbix Problems view
Before going on to how it looks like, here's the standard Problems view in Zabbix, in case you would not have used Zabbix.
Frankly, I like the standard problems view very much for several reasons. It's very configurable, it's easy to go through many alerts with it, you have the interactive context menus and so forth. So, for day-to-day operations it is a very powerful tool.
However, for a very quick glance of what issues have not yet been acknowledged, the ones that are acknowledged and the ones that are resolved, the standard Problems view is not as intuitive and fast to parse as a Kanban view possibly could be.
monZphere's solution
Let's welcome monZphere's Kanban module. Here's how it looks like.
This view is very familiar to for example Jira users, and is actually a surprisingly cool way of viewing your active alerts in a new way. If your Zabbix has a smallish number of active alerts around, this layout provides you with lots of information in an easy format for your brains to parse and maybe for incident managers to follow.
You can also add new comments to incidents directly from the Kanban view.
Comments added here are just standard Zabbix comments that you can add in traditional Problems widget, too, and as such after I drop a comment on Kanban view and go back to Zabbix main dashboard, I can see my comment there.
In case you would have plenty of alerts going on, you can filter the alerts by severity, tags or dates so you can narrow down the alert list exactly to point when something happened.
Filter with some criteria, and the view changes as expected.
The module is already usable, but this module is clearly still under development, as for example more translations should be added for us who don't speak Brazilian Portuguese.
I'm sure that any missing functionality will be implemented soon and even with the minor initial issues, the Kanban view itself is already very helpful and a refreshing idea.
I really like how monZphere is thinking out of the box with these new experiments. Keep up the good work!
